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| Defining the Humanities and Cultural Roots for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Earliest Civilizations | |
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| Mesopotamia | |
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| The City-State Culture | |
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| Sumerian Architecture and Art Sumerian Mythology, Religion, and Worship | |
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| Sumerian Music Daily Lives: A Day in School Literacy and Literature in Mesopotamia | |
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| The Mesopotamian Empire Reading | |
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| Selections:From The Epic of Gilgamesh | |
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| From The Hammurabi Code | |
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| Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush | |
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| The First and Second Dynasties (31002686 B.C.) | |
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| The Old Kingdom (26862180 B.C.) | |
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| The Middle Kingdom (21401786 B.C.) | |
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| The New Kingdom (15701085 B.C.) | |
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| Daily Lives: Schools and Scribes | |
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| The Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period (1085332 B.C.) | |
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| The Ptolemaic Period (33230 B.C.) | |
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| Egyptian Music Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush | |
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| Reading Selections:The Instruction of Ptah-hotep | |
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| From the Book of the Dead | |
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| Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton), The Great Hymn to the Aten | |
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| Egyptian Love Poetry | |
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| The Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian Roots | |
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| Early Greece Hellenism: The Rise of Greek Culture | |
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| Greek Religion and Mythology Homer and the Epic | |
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| The Lyric | |
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| The Archaic Period: Architecture and Sculpture | |
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| Reading Selections:Homer, from the Iliad; From the Odyssey | |
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| Sappho, Selected Lyric Poems and Fragments | |
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| Classical Greece: Politics, Art, Drama Politics and Life in Ancient Athens | |
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| The Classical Period: Architecture and Sculpture | |
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| From Classical to Hellenistic Sculpture | |
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| Classical Greek Drama | |
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| Daily Lives: Going to the Theater in Ancient Athens | |
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| Greek Comedy Reading Selections:Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration | |
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| Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | |
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| Euripides, The Women of Troy | |
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| Classical Greece: Philosophy and Ethical Thought | |
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| The Pre-Socratics Socrates (470?399 B.C.) | |
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| Plato (427? 347 B.C.) | |
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| Aristotle (384322 B.C.) | |
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| Reading Selections:Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments | |
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| Plato, The Allegory of the Cave; The Death of Socrates | |
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| Aristotle, from the Politics; The High-Minded Man; From the Poetics | |
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| The Culture of Rome Hellenistic and Roman | |
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| History and Thought | |
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| Daily Lives: The Shrewd Landowner | |
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| Roman Art and Architecture | |
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| Roman Literature | |
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| Reading Selections:Cicero, from On the Laws | |
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| Ovid, from the Metamorphoses | |
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| Virgil, from the Aeneid | |
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| Horace, My Slave is Free to Speak Up for Himself Juvenal, Satire | |
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| On Leaving Rome | |
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| Lucretius, from the Triumph Song of Death | |
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| Marcus Aurelius, from the Meditations | |
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| Judaism and Early Christianity | |
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| The Ancient Hebrews and the Bible | |
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| The Prophets and the Fall of Israel | |
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| Early Christianity | |
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| The End of Antiquity | |
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| The Barbarian Influence in the Western Roman Empire | |
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| Early Christian Music: Gregorian Chant | |
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| Daily Lives: Life in an Early Medieval Monastery | |
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| Reading Selections:Genesis: The Creation; The Fall | |
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| Exodus: The Ten Commandments | |
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| Judges: The Song of Deborah | |
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| Psalms: Psalm | |
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| The Prophets: Amos | |
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| From the Song of Solomon | |
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| The Gospel According to Luke: The Magnificat | |
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| The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount | |
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| The Apostle Paul: From the Letter to the Ephesians | |
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| From the First Letter to the Corinthians | |
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| Augustine, from the Confessions | |
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| Medieval Cultures | |
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| The Byzantine and the Islamic Empires | |
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| The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium | |
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| The Threat of Islam and Separation from the West | |
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| Collapse of the Byzantine Empire (1261-1453) | |
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| Byzantium as a Transmitter of Ancient | |
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| Greek Culture to the West | |
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| The Islamic Empire | |
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| Daily Lives: The Quran on Women | |
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| Reading Selections:From the Quran | |
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| Sufi Poetry | |
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| Ibn Zaydun, Poem to Walladah | |
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| Four Poems Addressed to Ibn Zaydun | |
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| From The Thousand and One Nights | |
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| Medieval Europe: Culture and the Cathedral Medieval Revivals | |
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| Daily Lives: Hildegard of Bingen: An Exceptional Medieval Woman | |
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| Medieval Art and the Church: The Gothic | |
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| Cathedral Music and Drama in the Cathedral Reading Selections:William of Rubruck, Letter from Mongolia | |
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| Marco Polo, from the Travels of Marco Polo | |
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| The Play of Daniel | |
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| Divine and Human Love in Medieval Europe | |
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| The Adoration of the Virgin Mary | |
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| Representations of the Virgin Mary | |
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| The Literature and Music of Courtly | |
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| Love Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | |
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| Chaucer (c. 1342-1400) and the Comedy of Love | |
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| Polyphonic Music | |
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| Reading Selections:From The Letters of Abelard and Heloise | |
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| Bernart de Ventadorn, Be m'an perdut | |
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| Quis Dabit Capiti | |
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| The Countess of Die, Selected Lyrics | |
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| Dante Alighieri, from the Divine Comedy | |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale | |
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| The Western African Cultural Root | |
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| African Backgrounds Images of Africa in the West Africa and America Stages in African History | |
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| Reading Selections:The Culture of Benin: From A Short History of Benin | |
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| From Benin Oral Literature | |
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| European Accounts of Benin: Ruy de Pina, from the Chronicle of John II | |
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| Willem Bosman, from New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea | |
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| West African Languages and Literature: The Oral Tradition and Its Legacy | |
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| Written Literature in Africa Oral Literature | |
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| African Myths and Religions: Some Generalizations Tales (Hausa) | |
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| Riddles Proverbs Poetry | |
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| Daily Lives: Language, Learning, and Performance | |
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| Reading Selections:The Epic: From Sundiata | |
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| Myths: Two Yoruba Myths of Creation | |
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| Myths on the Separation of Man from God | |
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| Myths on the Origin of Death | |
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| Tales and Proverbs: A Labarai Tale | |
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| Tatsuniyoyi Tales | |
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| Yoruba Proverbs | |
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| Poetry: Oriki--Yoruba Praise Poems | |
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| Iwi--The Poetry of Yoruba Masqueraders | |
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| Fulani Poetry | |
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| Ga Poetry | |
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| Visual and Musical Arts of West Africa | |
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| Visual Arts African | |
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| Music African Arts in Festival: The Efe/Gelede of the Western Yoruba | |
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| The Asian Cultural Root | |
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| An Introduction to the Civilization of India | |
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| India's Early History Hinduism | |
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| Daily Lives: Manu the Lawgiver Buddhism and Islam | |
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| The Village Indian Literature | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Music and Dance | |
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| Reading Selections:From the Bhagavad Gita | |
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| From the Kamasutra of Vatsyayana | |
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| The Buddha's Sermon in the Deer Park | |
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| From The Bodhisattva | |
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| An Introduction to the Civilizations of China and Japan | |
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| Daily Lives: Rites of Ancestor Worship | |
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| China from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 221 | |
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| Religion and Philosophical Thought China from 221 B.C. to A.D. 221 | |
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| Buddhism and the Age of Dispersal (220-586) | |
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| China from 581 to 1300 | |
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| Science and Technology | |
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| Foreign Trade Why Not China? | |
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| Why Europe? | |
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| Chinese Poetry | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Music Japan: Early Civilization Late Bronze Age | |
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| The Yamato Court (Fourth Through Seventh Centuries A.D.) | |
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| The High Culture of the Nara Period (710-794) | |
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| The Heian Court (794-1192) | |
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| The Rise of Medieval Society Japan and the West | |
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| Reading Selections:Confucius, From the Analecta (Commentaries and Sayings) | |
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| Lao Zi, Dao De Jing (Tao-te Ching) | |
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| Gou Xiang, Commentary on the Chuang Tzu | |
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| Zong Bing, Introduction to Landscape Painting | |
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| A Commentary on Buddhismby Mou Tzu | |
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| Ban Jieyu (Pan Chieh-Yuuml;), Poem in Rhyme--Prose Form; Song of Regret | |
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| Poets of the Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei and Li Bo, Poems from the Manyocirc;shucirc; | |
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| Ono no Komachi, Poems | |
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| The Tale of the Heike | |
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| Lady Sarashina, A | |